----- Original Message ----- From: "Christian Seiler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2004 8:59 AM
Subject: [Andromda-user] Feedback on BPM4Struts
Hi, today I tried BPM4Struts (latest M3 snapshot) for the first time. I want to give you feedback about some things I've noticed:
1) Using tagged values to link activity graph to use case / controller
a) This didn't work, I did a little debugging and the cause seems to be that getModel().getRootPackage().getClasses() doesn't return any classes (at leat with my model, I'am using Magicdraw 8.0SP1).
This happens for example in StrutsActivityGraph.handleGetController()
-> no controller classes are found.
Switching to setting the context with Magic Draw did the job (which is what I tried first. But I had also some problems with it, probably some misconfiguration)
b) @andromda.struts.usecase.activity It seems that the name of the diagram has to be referenced and not the activity graph itself. If this is true then the documentation should be more verbose IMO.
Furthermore I think that this whole context issue is a major barrier for new users (I spent several hours trying tagged values, dealing with NPEs and Magicdraw issues) and should be exposed in the documentation even more than it is right now. Maybe BPM4Struts should validate the context settings before doing anything else.
A final note on this issue: Also one liners like StrutsActivityGraph graph = controller.getUseCase().getActivityGraph(); often make it hard to debug NPEs.
2) web.xml The file gets rewritten at every time. I think the file doesn't change much from Andromda perspective, so wouldn't it be better to create it only once?
You would be able to customize it later on without changes being lost. Or is there a different solution to customize web.xml (beside changing the template of course)
-- What I do (and think is the better solution, in fact I do this for jsp pages as well), is if I need to have anything extra in the web.xml I put it in another directory and copy this one over the generated one during the build, this way I don't need to worry about things be regenerated and if there are changes in the regenered web.xml that I need (say I decide to turn on security), I can copy and paste these into my manual web.xml version.
3) controller class package If the controller class is in a different package than the activity graph, only the form classes referring to the controller methods are in the right package, the controller itself is in the package of the activity graph.
Well, only a minor issue (I didn't use the same package incidentally)
Bye Christian
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